Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology

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Page 192Hence, if wild grains were to form part of the diet during any extended portion of
the year, a rather large amount had to be harvested. Moreover, to make use of
such a harvest, a considerable amount of additional labor was needed to process
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Page 193The preagricultural villages grew up in order to store the grain, process it into
flour, and convert it into flat cakes or porridge. The construction of houses, walls,
roasters, grinders, and storage pits may be viewed as capital investment in grain
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Page 194And so the people would seem to be unconsciously selecting against the very
feature that is most essential for the breeding of domesticated grains. How was
this selection reversed? One theory is that when sheaths of tough-rachis grain
were ...